Samuel Fout
@samuel.fout.us
Middle school math teacher. Previously 8 years of experience working in public schools in Nashville and the Portland area. Working in Independent girls' education since 2021.
This plus Dylan Kane's piece are the required reading about Alpha School open.substack.com/pub/fivetwel...
There is so much to unpack here, I don't know where to begin.
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Parents Fell in Love With Alpha School’s Promise. Then They Wanted Out
In Brownsville, Texas, some families found a buzzy new school’s methods—surveillance of kids, software in lieu of teachers—to be an education in and of itself.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This plus Dylan Kane's piece are the required reading about Alpha School open.substack.com/pub/fivetwel...
Reposted by Samuel Fout
“The job of teaching is not just to provide something worth noticing, but to protect students from everything that isn’t.”
Interesting article by @carlhendrick.substack.com
substack.com/@carlhendric...
Interesting article by @carlhendrick.substack.com
substack.com/@carlhendric...
Carl Hendrick (@carlhendrick)
Attention is a filter not a spotlight, and noisy classrooms assault that filter from every direction. Today's students rarely suffer from boredom or attention shortages, they suffer from attention sur...
substack.com
October 4, 2025 at 11:34 AM
“The job of teaching is not just to provide something worth noticing, but to protect students from everything that isn’t.”
Interesting article by @carlhendrick.substack.com
substack.com/@carlhendric...
Interesting article by @carlhendrick.substack.com
substack.com/@carlhendric...
Pretty stoked I actually got my PDS working. So this will be the space I put anything related to my professional life as a teacher. I hope to start writing a bit about my experience soon.
September 30, 2025 at 4:55 AM
Pretty stoked I actually got my PDS working. So this will be the space I put anything related to my professional life as a teacher. I hope to start writing a bit about my experience soon.